[media-5] Add more discussion of fingerprinting risks with prefers-*, per #12282
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I'm not very confident writing this sort of thing. Any feedback is welcome. |
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In general this looks good, and is way better than what is there now!
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| * Colors and other property values may be directly accessed through computed style. |
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Yes, but specifications are mitigating that in some cases.
For example, system colors, in CSS Color 4
User Agents may, to mitigate privacy and security risks such as fingerprinting, elect to return fixed values for the used value of system colors which do not reflect customisation or theming choices made by the user.
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Explicitly address fingerprinting concerns with media queries. Also goes some way to addressing #10076 and #9119 and #3488.